Dear UMass Boston community,
I am writing to follow up on my email yesterday confirming that a member of our community has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus. We are grateful that this young man sought medical attention immediately and greatly limited his contact with others. The student did not participate in any classes or campus activities last week.
As the month of January rolls by, New Year’s dieting promises tend to fizzle out. Many people who’ve resolved to follow the latest fad diet, such as keto, paleo and flexitarian regimes, find themselves back where they started by the time February arrives.
Studies show that for a majority of people, the weight piles back on in the long term. The reason? The restrictions of one particular diet are too difficult to stick to.
Shortly before Thanksgiving 2018, Honors College Dean Jim Canning sent out an email seeking students to volunteer at Central Food Ministry, a food pantry in Lowell’s Centralville neighborhood that serves thousands of people each year.
The Autism Insurance Resource Center at UMass Medical School’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center has received a $15,000 grant from the Doug Flutie, Jr. Foundation for Autism Inc. to help expand its outreach program to culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs has named UMass Medical School perinatal depression expert Nancy Byatt, DO, MS, MBA, the recipient of the 2020 John C. MacQueen Lecture Award. The award recognizes innovation by individuals who have made exemplary contributions to maternal and child health issues. Past recipients include former U.S. Surgeon General Everett C. Koop and child rights advocate Marian Wright Edelman.
Researchers in the muscle biology laboratory in the department of kinesiology are seeking participants for a study of the effects of different resistance training exercise programs on skeletal muscle function in healthy men and women from 65 to 75 years old.
It is not clear what type of resistance training is best to improve the muscle function of older men and women and study results will help in the development of more effective resistance training programs for them.
The School of Public Policy recently hosted 47 students from across campus who spent a day tackling the crucial question of how to create sustainable cities during a beta test of the NASPAA-Batten Student Simulation Competition.
In the annual international competition, sponsored by the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs and Administration and the Batten School at UVA, students use real-world data to solve hypothetical but realistic problems through policy development. The theme of the 2020 competition is sustainable cities, with a focus on transportation.
AMHERST, Mass. – Motif FoodWorks, the animal-free ingredient innovation company, and food scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will collaborate in a research partnership to optimize the process of characterizing functional properties of food proteins.
In an article introducing what she calls “one of the most important and rewarding experiences of my career so far,” assistant professor of mathematics Annie Raymond relates how she came to teach math to prisoners, first at the Washington State Reformatory’s “University Beyond Bars” program while a postdoc at the University of Washington in 2016. Later she taught at San Quentin State Prison in California and most recently in the Hampshire County Jail in Northampton. She came to campus in 2018.
AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst has received approval from the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education to offer a new bachelor of science degree in veterinary technology. The new four-year program, which will include two years of study at the university’s Amherst Campus, followed by two years of study at the Mount Ida Campus in Newton, begins this fall.